Leading Learning: Educational Leadership in Globalising Times

Course aim

To develop informed and critical understandings of the policies, theories and practices of ‘educational’ leadership with a focus on leaders of learning.

Course content

Students will examine the global policy context for ‘educational’ leadership: global policy networks, ‘big data’,
school or site choice, devolution and local school or site management. Students will analyse the contested nature of ‘educational’ leadership: leading learning, instructional leadership, distributed leadership, relational leadership, transformational leadership. Students will critically examine methodologies for researching ‘educational’ leadership: policy sociology, ethnography, ethno-methodology, autobiography, School or Site Effectiveness and School or Site Improvement (SE/SI). Students will research ‘educational’ leadership in their own context, developing their own case study.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Essay, Literature review

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 1)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.